I am not like Other travellers; Istanbul holds the Tur-key to my heart
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2023-06-15
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Orientalism and ‘Othering’ are the products of the travel accounts from the sixteenth and seventeenth century. These concepts describe the divide between East and West, which is still an issue to this day. The publication of Orientalism by Edward Said brought light to these issues.. The genre of travel writing has extended to the digital world through travel blogs, which have not been widely studied. By comparing an analysis of travel blogs from the past ten years to that of The Turkish Embassy Letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, it has been determined to what extend the concepts are still present in the modern age and what change they have undergone, if any. The analysis shows that ‘Othering’ is still widely present in travel literature, in both the description of locals and their culture, and the ‘Othering’ of fellow travellers.
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